Outlawed by Amazon DRM — A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it's worst. Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say had …

Would You Rather Own a Magazine or a Digital Startup? — On the evening of Sunday, Oct. 14, Ad Age Editor Abbey Klaassen and I stood on a small, remote-controlled boat — one not much bigger than a queen-size bed — floating in the pool at the Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

Breitbart's Inheritors Battle Over His Legacy — Less than a year after the sudden death the conservative provocateur and pioneering blogger Andrew Breitbart, the web empire he had begun to build under his own name is plagued by an unusual degree of disorganization and rampant infighting …

Did The Daily Beast Eat Newsweek? — The shutdown of the venerable print edition of Newsweek is yet another step in the long, inexorable march of all things print to digital — a familiar storyline. Except when it's not. Many pundits will proclaim Newsweek as simply the latest …

Clark Kent quits the Daily Planet in Superman #13 — and he doesn't go quietly. He resigns in front of the whole staff, reports Brian Truitt, “and rails on how journalism has given way to entertainment.” (The Daily Planet is now part of the multimedia corporation Galaxy Broadcasting.)

How NYT's David Carr got scooped on the Newsweek story — New York Times media reporter David Carr started working on the death-of-Newsweek-print-edition story on Wednesday, but got beat by Newsweek, which announced the news early Thursday. Carr told a Washington and Lee Journalism Ethics Institute audience …

Hacking: Mirror Papers Face Legal Claims — Newspapers belonging to Trinity Mirror are for the first time to face legal claims for phone hacking, Sky News has learned. — Until now the only company to be sued for illegally snooping on voicemail messages was News Group Newspapers, publishers of the now-defunct News of the World.

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